taskflow/README.rst
Joshua Harlow c07a96b3b8 Update the README.rst with accurate requirements
We no longer have a 'optional-requirements.txt' file
so the README.rst should not mention it existing (since
it's not there anymore) so this updates that file with
valid requirements and where they are located (and includes
examples of optional requirements with links to there
project pages).

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TaskFlow
========
A library to do [jobs, tasks, flows] in a highly available, easy to understand
and declarative manner (and more!) to be used with OpenStack and other
projects.
* Free software: Apache license
* Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow
* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/taskflow
* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/taskflow/
Join us
-------
- http://launchpad.net/taskflow
Testing and requirements
------------------------
Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Because this project has many optional (pluggable) parts like persistence
backends and engines, we decided to split our requirements into three
parts: - things that are absolutely required (you can't use the project
without them) are put into ``requirements-pyN.txt`` (``N`` being the
Python *major* version number used to install the package). The requirements
that are required by some optional part of this project (you can use the
project without them) are put into our ``tox.ini`` file (so that we can still
test the optional functionality works as expected). If you want to use the
feature in question (`eventlet`_ or the worker based engine that
uses `kombu`_ or the `sqlalchemy`_ persistence backend or jobboards which
have an implementation built using `kazoo`_ ...), you should add
that requirement(s) to your project or environment; - as usual, things that
required only for running tests are put into ``test-requirements.txt``.
Tox.ini
~~~~~~~
Our ``tox.ini`` file describes several test environments that allow to test
TaskFlow with different python versions and sets of requirements installed.
Please refer to the `tox`_ documentation to understand how to make these test
environments work for you.
Developer documentation
-----------------------
We also have sphinx documentation in ``docs/source``.
*To build it, run:*
::
$ python setup.py build_sphinx
.. _kazoo: http://kazoo.readthedocs.org/
.. _sqlalchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
.. _kombu: http://kombu.readthedocs.org/
.. _eventlet: http://eventlet.net/
.. _tox: http://tox.testrun.org/
.. _developer documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/